Fresher Interview Questions

Describe segmentation & pipelining in 8086.
What is the difference between 8085 and 8086 and 80286?
What is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086?
#5 Mhz is the Maximum clock frequency in 8086.
What are the flags in 8086?
#In 8086 Carry flag, Parity flag, Auxiliary carry flag, Zero flag, Overflow flag, Trace flag, Interrupt flag, Direction [...]

what is the difference between program counter and stack pointer . and what is the difference between data and address.what are the difference between memory and memory location.
what is machine cycle,instruction cycle and T-state?
difference between memory mapped IO and IO mapped IO?
what are assembler and cross assembler?
define interrupt? and its types
What is the difference between [...]

Computer Architecture
1. Explain what is DMA?
2. What is pipelining?
3. What are super scalar machines and vliw machines?
4. What is cache?

These interview questions test the knowledge of x86 Intel architecture and 8086 microprocessor specifically.

1. What is assembler?
2. What is linker?
3. What is debugger?
4. What is compiler?
5. What is locator?
6. What is emulator?
7. When divide overflow error occurs?
8. What does .startup stand for?
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1. What is an interrupt?
2. Which are the hardware and software interrupts in 8086?
3. Mention the priority of interrupts in8086.
4. What is int1, int2, int3?
5. What is NMI interrupt?
6. What is IVT in 8086?
7. [...]